From Patients to Partners: Transforming Periodontal Research with PPI
Research type
Research Study
Full title
From Patients to Partners: Transforming Periodontal Research with Patient and Public Involvement
IRAS ID
332985
Contact name
Shauna Culshaw
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS GG&C Research & Innovation (R&I)
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 25 days
Research summary
Periodontitis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease that can lead to tooth loss and is associated with – and increasingly believed to contribute to myriad systemic diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. The global prevalence of severe periodontitis is 9.8%. Dental disease, of which periodontitis is the most common, accounts for 6% of health care spend. Current periodontal treatment is costly, time consuming, often only partially successful and disease recurrence is common. Further research is essential to prevent and effectively treat periodontitis and reduce the impact of periodontitis on general health. Patient Public Involvement (PPI) improves relevance and quality of research. There is little direction on adapting existing PPI guidance to Dentistry. This work seeks to develop a PPI group for periodontal research with learnings broadly applicable to dental research.
Aims
1. To identify the attitudes and opinions of periodontitis patients to PPI and barriers to their involvement in PPI.
2. To identify the attitudes and opinions of periodontitis patients with diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis to PPI and identify specific challenges in patients with multimorbidity.
3. Create a forum of PPI contributors for collaboration with Glasgow Dental Hospital and establish a system of providing research updates and opportunities to patients.
4. To provide an example of and framework for establishing a PPI forum for dissemination throughout the dental research community.
5. To facilitate PPI for a specific research question: “What are the attitudes of patients to repurposing of drugs for treatment of periodontitis?”.REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/PR/0953
Date of REC Opinion
19 Aug 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion